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Subject[PATCH, RESEND 1/4] mm: drop zap_details::ignore_dirty
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The only user of ignore_dirty is oom-reaper. But it doesn't really use
it.

ignore_dirty only has effect on file pages mapped with dirty pte.
But oom-repear skips shared VMAs, so there's no way we can dirty file
pte in them.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 1 -
mm/memory.c | 6 ------
mm/oom_kill.c | 3 +--
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index b84615b0f64c..88beebe1e695 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1148,7 +1148,6 @@ struct zap_details {
struct address_space *check_mapping; /* Check page->mapping if set */
pgoff_t first_index; /* Lowest page->index to unmap */
pgoff_t last_index; /* Highest page->index to unmap */
- bool ignore_dirty; /* Ignore dirty pages */
bool check_swap_entries; /* Check also swap entries */
};

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 6bf2b471e30c..1d8ef8ec1b48 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1155,12 +1155,6 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,

if (!PageAnon(page)) {
if (pte_dirty(ptent)) {
- /*
- * oom_reaper cannot tear down dirty
- * pages
- */
- if (unlikely(details && details->ignore_dirty))
- continue;
force_flush = 1;
set_page_dirty(page);
}
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index ec9f11d4f094..f101db68e760 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -465,8 +465,7 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct mmu_gather tlb;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- struct zap_details details = {.check_swap_entries = true,
- .ignore_dirty = true};
+ struct zap_details details = {.check_swap_entries = true};
bool ret = true;

/*
--
2.11.0
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